Dr Wood Roberdeau

Staff details

Wood Roberdeau is a theorist working on contemporary art and exhibition practices within the wider environmental humanities. His writing is informed by the spatial theme of dwelling and new concepts of political ecology after twentieth-century eco-criticism; it investigates the activation of visual art within philosophical post-humanism, particularly in terms of subjectivity and agency, the ontology of objects and materiality, cultivation and agriculture, temporal scale effects, everyday aesthetics, and geopoetics. Wood also co-chairs the Critical Ecologies research stream, as part of Technologies, Worlds, Politics.

Academic qualifications

PhD, Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London, 2008

MA, Contemporary Art, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London, 2002

BA, French Literature, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, 1999

Teaching

Wood teaches Conceptual Ecologies, a core course on the MA in Contemporary Art Theory. For the BA in History of Art and BA in Fine Art/History of Art, he convenes Space & Time (year 1), Inhabitations (year 2) and Cohabitations (year 2). Past BA teaching has included core module Introduction to Art History (year 1), London Art Worlds (study abroad students), Postmodernities (years 2 and 3) and core module Contemporaneities (year 2). From 2016-2019, he takes up the key departmental role of Chair of Learning and Teaching.

Areas of supervision

Projects that connect with the following thematic research clusters in the department of Visual Cultures are welcome: Environmental Humanities and Ecologies; Philosophy, Critical and Visual Theory; Political Aesthetics.

Professional activites

Wood is a member of the following learned societies: Association of Art Historians; Centre for Studies of Home; Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network; Society for Literature, Science and the Arts.

‘Readymade Rurality and Ecological Non-knowledge: Imagining the Art Farm’, Re-imagining Rurality, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, University of Westminster, London, 27-28 February, 2015